Jugoslovenska politika prema zemljama Trećeg sveta 1956–1961. godine iz perspektive Ambasade Narodne Republike Poljske u Beogradu
Yugoslav policy towards third world in the years 1956–1961 in the perspective of the Polish People's Republic embassy in Yugoslavia

Summary/Abstract: On the second half of 50's and beginning of 60's Embassy of the Polish People's Republic paid attention on Yugoslav policy towards Third World states. One of the reasons of such interest was that it was Moscow, that had predestined Poland as one of the political subjects that were to represent Eastern Block's interests in contacts with newly birth states and to work on establishing diplomatic relations with them. Polish diplomats perceived Tito's activity amongst developing countries as the reflection of his reluctant attitude towards further approachment with the West and complicated relations with the Soviet block as well. Polish official representatives in Belgrade found in the second half of 50's 20th century interests of the developing countries as contraditory and their attitudes in the international policy so far. Because of that, they claimed it to be impossible to establish any kind of political alliance. When in the 1961. in Belgrade summit of the non-aligned states took place, Polish Ambassador in Belgrade Aleksander Małecki tried to underestimate Yugoslav position in the Third World, maintaining, that Josip Broz Tito was overshadowed by Indian PM Javaharlal Nehru. In his diplomatic reports that were sent to Polish Ministry of Foreign Affaires Małecki intended to prove, that except of the small African states, Yugoslav vision of the potential alliance found no support. Such attitude of Polish diplomats was caused by complex relations between Belgrade and Moscow's satellite states, that might have been observed on the example of Yugoslav condemnation on the summits of the communists parties in 1957 and 1960. Unless Yugoslav inner political solutions had been perceived with disregard by Poles, it was underlined in the official documents, that political regime in Belgrade found to be more attractive for the newly-founded states rather than Soviet model. What is more, representatives of the Polish Peoples' Republic in Belgrade with regarded Yugoslav diplomats as competent and their activity as effective and successful. Polish diplomatic staff in Belgrade claimed – what is find to be true by contemporary historians - that Tito managed to achieve such prestige in the international policy that exceeded really modest potential of Yugoslavia.

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